Center for Systematic Biology & Evolution
CENTER FOR SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY & EVOLUTION 2008 ACTIVITY REPORT BY THE NUMBERS Research Visitors ....................... 253 Student Visitors.......................... 230 Other Visitors.......................... 1,596 TOTAL....................... 2,079 Outgoing Loans.......................... 535 Specimens/Lots Loaned........... 6,851 Information Requests .............. 1,294 FIELD WORK Botany - Uruguay Diatoms – Russia (Commander Islands, Kamchatka, Magdan) Entomology – Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Lesotho, Minnesota, Mississippi, Mongolia, Namibia, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Africa, Tennessee LMSE – Zambia Ornithology – Alaska, England Vertebrate Paleontology – Canada (Nunavut Territory), Pennsylvania PROPOSALS BOTANY . Digitization of Latin American, African and other type specimens of plants at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Global Plants Initiative (GPI), Mellon Foundation Award. DIATOMS . Algal Research and Ecologival Synthesis for the USGS National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program Cooperative Agreement 3. Co-PI with Don Charles (Patrick Center for Environmental Research, Phycology). Collaborative Research on Ecosystem Monitoring in the Russian Northern Far-East, Trust for Mutual Understanding Grant. CSBE Activity Report - 2008 . Diatoms of the Northcentral Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Wild Rescue Conservation Grant. Renovation and Computerization of the Diatom Herbarium at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, National
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